day one-hundred-and-thirty-two - make believe

today has not gone so well, so i took inspiration from a performance i saw tonight. essentially it was an 'instrumental' or picture book, accompanied by orchestral music. the book: the arrival by shaun tan

© jem barratt

not very good drawings i know, but there are loads of made-up animals in the aforementioned book and i wanted to make up some of my own.

initially i wanted to draw an owl bear, but then decided instead to do a tapiraffe, frill-necked lizdog, butterbird, and a catlephanatee.

ahem
xj

p.s. i'm halfway through

p.p.s. i'm ONLY halfway through!!